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What is love compared to in the following sentence: "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls"?

a wall

a perch

a bird

light

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Love is being compared to a bird because of the wings that are mentioned, and the perching on a wall because birds are creatures that perch.
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I think your best answer is A bird, because Love is being personified as having light wings and being able to perch.
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